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Back on the fixing of the storm damage. I have tried to get a number of local builders to fix the hole in the sea wall but no one is very keen to do it. Its strange as I have had this problem in the past, heavy duty construction work on an island is something that builders see as a bit to risky so either they just wont quote or if they do then it's eye wateringly expensive. As I have fixed a number of holes in the past I think the best thing to do is to get a couple of young, fit lads who I know to give me a hand do the work myself.
A quick calculation has shown that the hole is about 3m x 2m x 9m or 54 cubic m which implies about 120 tonnes of concrete!! Yikes. Wonder if that is right. At about a 5 to 1 mix that means about 20 tonnes of cement. I think I will get 2 tonnes of cement to start off with and fill in with large slates from the beach, that seems to be how the rest of the wall was built. I will also need a petrol driven mixer and a couple of wheelbarrows as mine are not up to this sort of work. Luckily Faldda has a lot of reasonably fine sand on the beach which I can use to mix the concrete and there is plenty of water in the tanks as the weather has been so abysmal. Duncan, who does all my heavy duty transportation (I have a small 20ft shetland boat for shopping etc but it is not up to carrying heavy materials) can carry 1 tonne at a time so that will be at least 2 trips.
I have posted some pictures of the hole.. fingers crossed that this works.